And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Керуак Д.

Аннотация

In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century''s most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac''s And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an electrifying true-life mystery, including afterword by James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics. This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the police. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer - of a group of friends in wartime New York, moving through each other''s apartments, drinking, necking, talking and taking drugs and haphazardly drifting towards a bloody crime. Unpublished for years, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers.

Характеристики

Издательство: Penguin
Год выпуска: 2009
Переплет: мягкий
Формат: 198х129
Количество страниц: 224

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Керуак Д.

Американский писатель, поэт, важнейший представитель литературы «бит-поколения». Пользовавшийся читательским успехом, но не избалованный вниманием критиков при жизни, Керуак сегодня считается одним из самых значительных американских писателей. Его спонтанный исповедальный язык вдохновлял таких авторов, как Том Роббинс, Ричард Бротиган, Хантер Томпсон, Кен Кизи, Уильям Гибсон, Боб Дилан. Его называли «королём битников».